Speed Law

(Watch it) relax, pump the brakes, you're speedin', money
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 (Watch it) you'll smash your whole shit up
 Man, chill (slow down)
 Lights be changing fast on these streets, money, slow down (slow down)
 (Watch it) (slow down)
 Sleeping on the wrong cats (slow down)
 Clear like a megaphone
 Pretty nigga heart skipped the metronome
 Rocked the Trump Tower to the terror dome (watch it)
 Poor house to pleasure domes, soprano, alto, tenor to baritone
 Mos Def, one of the illest that you ever known
 Rock steady baby, you a stepping stone
 Smash your foundation into pebbles
 My words leave your nerves unsettled (watch it)
 You take it to the next level down, looking like a circus clown
 Cats like you can't even get a pound
 Worldwide from the river to lakeside
 My stage show stay live (watch it), make the sound man stage dive
 I cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight-ball lines
 I'm home 'fore I'm done with all nine
 Got you shook a fault line
 Come all shine and get tarnished (watch it)
 Brooklyn got your payroll garnished
 They form a huddle, whisper like they want trouble
 I melt the ice grills into rainwater puddles
 Make the proud-hearted leave on the humble
 Black Steel in the hour (watch it)
 Assemble my skill form my power
 My poems crush bones into powder
 You mumble like a coward
 I'm Mos Def, you need to speak louder (Super Heroes)
 Get your power, your masks and capes snatched
 Brooklyn take what you can't take back (watch it)
 I know a lot of cats hate that, all I can say black
 There's a city full of walls you can post complaints at
 All the doubters and believers adjust your receivers
 "I feel it," (watch it) you can taste it through the speakers
 The three six, original sketch lyrics so visual
 They rent my rhyme books at your nearest home video
 Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at (watch it)
 Brook-nahm Vietnam
 The heat is on, put your joint on cruise
 Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax
 Take a breath, take ten paces back (watch it)
 Stay on time like Omegas
 Brooklyn patrol like interstaters
 Take their license and their registration papers
 My joint's so passionate
 Make you peal out and mash your shit
 Get wild cold crash your whip
 Front chassis wrecked, but 'ock you can't be too upset
 Tow truck got my tape in the deck
 I'm permanent like tattoos and birthmarks
 Third-degree burn marks
 Driving on tracks (watch it) like Dale Earnheardt
 Stay on the low like the herb spot
 Put a big loss on your earn chart
 Nice since the nurse signed my birth chart
 Seldom seen but often heard, while your jams is barely heard
 Just my name (watch it) is a daily word
 From avenues to streets, terraces and park places
 Stair wells, jail cells, penthouse to basements
 Arrangement basic, but still fans chase it
 Y2K (watch it) can't delete the true ancient
 Apache war drum on the ranges, skill level dangerous
 Arrowhead that killed all the cavemen
 They cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement
 And get violated (watch it) like a plaintiff
 I ain't shit to play with
 I give a God damn what your name is
 Delete it and make it so it never get repeated, believe it
 Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell your mother
 Conference call you wack crew (watch it) and tell each other
 That they just ain't holding me
 I'm Mos Def, you hopefully
 Mush on before you get bust off like a ovary
 Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at (watch it)
 Brook-nahm Vietnam
 The heat is on
 Put your joint on cruise
 In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax
 Take a breath, take ten paces back (watch it)
 Brook-nahm Vietnam
 The heat is on, no off-ramp or detour
 Make these gassed-up jokers observe the speed law
 Make these gassed-up clowns observe the speed law
 Make these gassed-up clowns (watch it) observe the speed law
 'Cause they speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin'
 Speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin'
 Speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin' (watch it)
 Relax (woo)
 Slow down, you better chill, money (slow down)
 Lights be changing fast (slow down) on these streets dude (watch it)
 Smash your whole shit up (slow down)
 You better cool out, money (slow down)
 It ain't like that out here (slow down)
 (Slow down) look at these cats man (watch it), it's funny man
 (Slow down) he probably just got that car (slow down)
 About to fuck your whole shit up (slow down) (watch it)
 (Slow down) speed laws out here, money (slow down)
 (Slow down) Knight riding cats (slow down) (watch it)
 In control like interstaters, staters, staters
 Staters, staters, staters, staters, staters
 Staters, staters, staters, staters, staters
 Stay the fuck off the road, money!!
 
 (Watch it) relax, pump the brakes, you're speedin', money
 ♪
 (Watch it) you'll smash your whole shit up
 Man, chill (slow down)
 Lights be changing fast on these streets, money, slow down (slow down)
 (Watch it) (slow down)
 Sleeping on the wrong cats (slow down)
 Clear like a megaphone
 Pretty nigga heart skipped the metronome
 Rocked the Trump Tower to the terror dome (watch it)
 Poor house to pleasure domes, soprano, alto, tenor to baritone
 Mos Def, one of the illest that you ever known
 Rock steady baby, you a stepping stone
 Smash your foundation into pebbles
 My words leave your nerves unsettled (watch it)
 You take it to the next level down, looking like a circus clown
 Cats like you can't even get a pound
 Worldwide from the river to lakeside
 My stage show stay live (watch it), make the sound man stage dive
 I cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight-ball lines
 I'm home 'fore I'm done with all nine
 Got you shook a fault line
 Come all shine and get tarnished (watch it)
 Brooklyn got your payroll garnished
 They form a huddle, whisper like they want trouble
 I melt the ice grills into rainwater puddles
 Make the proud-hearted leave on the humble
 Black Steel in the hour (watch it)
 Assemble my skill form my power
 My poems crush bones into powder
 You mumble like a coward
 I'm Mos Def, you need to speak louder (Super Heroes)
 Get your power, your masks and capes snatched
 Brooklyn take what you can't take back (watch it)
 I know a lot of cats hate that, all I can say black
 There's a city full of walls you can post complaints at
 All the doubters and believers adjust your receivers
 "I feel it," (watch it) you can taste it through the speakers
 The three six, original sketch lyrics so visual
 They rent my rhyme books at your nearest home video
 Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at (watch it)
 Brook-nahm Vietnam
 The heat is on, put your joint on cruise
 Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax
 Take a breath, take ten paces back (watch it)
 Stay on time like Omegas
 Brooklyn patrol like interstaters
 Take their license and their registration papers
 My joint's so passionate
 Make you peal out and mash your shit
 Get wild cold crash your whip
 Front chassis wrecked, but 'ock you can't be too upset
 Tow truck got my tape in the deck
 I'm permanent like tattoos and birthmarks
 Third-degree burn marks
 Driving on tracks (watch it) like Dale Earnheardt
 Stay on the low like the herb spot
 Put a big loss on your earn chart
 Nice since the nurse signed my birth chart
 Seldom seen but often heard, while your jams is barely heard
 Just my name (watch it) is a daily word
 From avenues to streets, terraces and park places
 Stair wells, jail cells, penthouse to basements
 Arrangement basic, but still fans chase it
 Y2K (watch it) can't delete the true ancient
 Apache war drum on the ranges, skill level dangerous
 Arrowhead that killed all the cavemen
 They cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement
 And get violated (watch it) like a plaintiff
 I ain't shit to play with
 I give a God damn what your name is
 Delete it and make it so it never get repeated, believe it
 Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell your mother
 Conference call you wack crew (watch it) and tell each other
 That they just ain't holding me
 I'm Mos Def, you hopefully
 Mush on before you get bust off like a ovary
 Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at (watch it)
 Brook-nahm Vietnam
 The heat is on
 Put your joint on cruise
 In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax
 Take a breath, take ten paces back (watch it)
 Brook-nahm Vietnam
 The heat is on, no off-ramp or detour
 Make these gassed-up jokers observe the speed law
 Make these gassed-up clowns observe the speed law
 Make these gassed-up clowns (watch it) observe the speed law
 'Cause they speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin'
 Speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin'
 Speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin' (watch it)
 Relax (woo)
 Slow down, you better chill, money (slow down)
 Lights be changing fast (slow down) on these streets dude (watch it)
 Smash your whole shit up (slow down)
 You better cool out, money (slow down)
 It ain't like that out here (slow down)
 (Slow down) look at these cats man (watch it), it's funny man
 (Slow down) he probably just got that car (slow down)
 About to fuck your whole shit up (slow down) (watch it)
 (Slow down) speed laws out here, money (slow down)
 (Slow down) Knight riding cats (slow down) (watch it)
 In control like interstaters, staters, staters
 Staters, staters, staters, staters, staters
 Staters, staters, staters, staters, staters
 Stay the fuck off the road, money!!